[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, iCasino @Penn Interactive

Role Description

As part of the iCasino team, you will be working with a group of talented and friendly individuals. Our goal is to deliver a best-in-class online casino experience across Hollywood Casino, theScore Casino, and theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino. The iCasino team deals with:

• Integrating with third party game providers and aggregators
• Supporting client developers with everything they need to browse and launch games
• Owning the real-money wagering flows behind every spin and hand
• Building tools to support casino operations and marketing stakeholders
• Delivering highly reliable and scalable solutions

About the Work:

• Design, scale, and performance-tune GraphQL APIs, low-latency gRPC services, and SQL queries powering the casino lobby, game launch, and real-money wagering flows
• Own technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting them to leadership and partner teams for feedback
• Design, architect, and deliver new features and game provider integrations end-to-end in a collaborative agile/scrum environment
• Identify bottlenecks and areas of risk in production, and drive the changes that make the platform more scalable
• Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in DataDog for the systems you own
• Mentor engineers on the team and across teams that ship into our codebase, through specs, pairing, and code review
• Other duties as required

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software engineering
• 2+ Years of experience building applications in Elixir
• 2+ Years of experience designing and evolving GraphQL schemas
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, and software design
• Strong grasp of production systems at scale, and experience identifying areas of improvement in a production environment through load testing and tracing
• Experience investigating and remediating production performance regressions, including CPU hotspots and latency regressions in high-throughput services
• Experience with on-call rotations for a production service, including owning release cycles end-to-end
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of authoring tech specs, runbooks, and cross-team design docs that stand up to scrutiny
• A strong grasp of relational databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience with Kubernetes and comfort operating services in a containerized environment
• Comfortable working in the terminal, with Git and GitHub or similar, and in an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, pytest, or equivalent
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Exq, Sidekiq, Celery, Beanstalk)
• Experience with asynchronous event handling infrastructure (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub)

Requirements

• NICE TO HAVE: experience in iCasino, sports betting or another regulated real-money domain
• Familiarity with game provider and wallet integrations
• Hexagonal architecture, Domain Driven Development
• Contribution to open source software
• Experience working at startups
• Passion for casino gaming, sports and/or esports

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others

Salary Range

$145,000 - $193,000 USD

Penn Interactive is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.